Stupidity Foils the Black Prince 08-05-06 One month ago the charismatic black prince of American politics, Senator Barack Obama, had a seemingly unassailable momentum in the contest for the Democratic Party presidential nomination this year. Yet for Democratic presidential primaries in North Carolina and Indiana tomorrow, which ought to have dealt two more victories to Obama and the death blow to Senator Hillary Clinton, his poll numbers have seriously eroded over the past three weeks. Another prominent African-American intellectual, Dr Thomas Sowell, wrote on the conservative TownHall.com website last week: "An email from a reader said that, while Hillary Clinton tells lies, Barack Obama is himself a lie. That is becoming painfully apparent with each new revelation of how drastically his carefully crafted image this election year contrasts with what he has actually been saying and doing for many years. "There is not a speck of evidence that Obama has ever transcended party differences in the United States Senate. Voting records analysed by the National Journal show him to be the farthest left of anyone in the Senate. Nor has he sponsored any significant bipartisan legislation - nor any other significant legislation, for that matter ... "His behaviour has been remarkably consistent over the years. He has sought out and joined with the radical, anti-Western left, whether Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers of the terrorist Weatherman underground, or the anti-Israeli Rashid Khalidi." Larry Elder, the radio host and author of Stupid Black Men, wrote in his most recent syndicated column: "[The] Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Senator Barack Obama's spiritual adviser and former pastor, holds a charter membership in the white-man-done-me-wrong, things-remain-the-same, we-feel-your-pain club. "Here's the 'victicrat' mindset: kids having difficulty performing well on standardised tests? Blame 'cultural bias'. A disproportionate number of blacks in prison? A racist criminal justice system that 'targets' blacks for prosecution and imprisonment ... Difficulty qualifying for a loan? Blame banks' devious plan to prevent blacks from getting 'access to capital' ... High inner-city dropout rate? Bad teachers, unequal funding, racist teachers - yada, blah, etc ... " Another African-American commentator and author, Juan Williams, made this brutal assessment of Obama's motives last week: "He chose to join this church to solidify his credentials as authentically black and authentically part of the South Side Chicago community [his core political base] because it is the largest church there and Reverend Wright is well known, not only in Chicago, but nationally. He's also known for making these outlandish comments. "Barack Obama chose to be associated with ... Wright because he saw advantage in it. This speaks to his character, and to his judgment, the [entire] basis on which he has been running his campaign." This fusillade of outrage from African-Americans about the politics of race is just a sampling of one side, of one act, of a great drama now playing across America. read the rest of the story comments in the forum Source: smh.com.au